Jessie Raymond

I’ve been playing a fun new game almost every day this summer. I call it Clothesline Chicken. 

Mark and I first got basic cable TV when we moved from Weybridge to Middlebury in 1994. Suddenly, we had dozens of channels to choose from. We paid…

In his 1922 poem “The Waste Land,” T.S. Eliot said — if I recall correctly — “April is the cruellest month / But May is, like, amazing.” Boy,…

“No offense,” Mark said, “but you look like you’re wearing a tablecloth.”

Traveling by air is speedier than by covered wagon but, I think, no less grueling.

Last week, I decided to turn our adult daughter’s childhood bedroom into a combined craft room and guest room.

Several years ago, I started making birthday cakes for my grandson and his baby sister. Soon Mark joined in, and things escalated.

As an older adult, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, asking myself life’s big questions. For example: What is a six-letter word for “scraps”?

I recently started keeping a journal, thinking it would be a good exercise in slowing down and reflecting on my daily life. My first entry, on Feb. 4,…

For the record, I am not incompetent. 

Our kids were just as entertaining when they were that age. But it’s been 20 years or so since I had a preschooler, and sometimes I forget how…